Consumer Guide Index by Year: 2018

Listing for 146 records from 2018 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy [Atlantic] Hamell on Trial: The Night Guy at the Apocalypse: Profiles of a Rushing Midnight [Saustex] Rich Krueger: Life Ain't That Long [Rockink] Rich Krueger: NOWThen [Rockink] Bettye Lavette: Things Have Changed [Verve] Mast: Thelonious Sphere Monk [World Galaxy/Alpha Pup] Mount Eerie: Now Only [P.W. Elverum & Sun] Maria Muldaur: Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker [Last] Willie Nelson: Last Man Standing [Legacy] Noname: Room 25 [self-released] The Paranoid Style: Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall + 3 [Bar/None] Parquet Courts: Wide Awaaaaake! [Rough Trade] Pistol Annies: Interstate Gospel [RCA] Pusha T: Daytona [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive [Merge] Tierra Whack: Whack World [self-released EP] Black Panther: The Album [TDE/Aftermath/Interscope]
A-	Bali Baby: Baylor Swift [Twin] Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel [Mom + Pop] Mandy Barnett: Strange Conversation [Dame Productions/Thirty Tigers] Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy [Matador] Chicago Farmer: Quarter Past Tonight [chicagofarmer.com] Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: Routes [Twelve Eight] Ry Cooder: The Prodigal Son [Fantasy] Frankie Cosmos: Vessel [Sub Pop] The Coup: Sorry to Bother You: The Soundtrack [Interscope] Cupcakke: Ephorize [Bigger Picture] Doctor Nativo: Guatemaya [Stonetree] Open Mike Eagle: What Happens When I Try to Relax [Auto Reverse] The Ex: 27 Passports [Ex] Lupe Fiasco: Drogas Wave [1st & 15th] Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus [Bella Union] Mary Gauthier: Rifles and Rosary Beads [In the Black] The Goon Sax: We're Not Talking [Wichita Recordings] Jon Hassell: Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1) [Ndeya] Hinds: I Don't Run [Mom + Pop] Homeboy Sandman & Edan: Humble Pi [Stones Throw] Idles: Joy as an Act of Resistance [Partisan] Imarhan: Temet [City Slang] The Internet: Hive Mind [Columbia] Joan Jett: Bad Reputation [Blackheart] John Kruth & La Società del Musici: Forever Ago [Ars Spoleteum] Leikeli47: Acrylic [Hardcover/RCA] Jinx Lennon: Grow a Pair!!! [Septic Tiger] Lyrics Born: Quite a Life [Mobile Home] Wynton Marsalis Septet: United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas [Blue Engine] The Mekons 77: It Is Twice Blessed [Slow Things] Mitski: Be the Cowboy [Dead Oceans] Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer [Atlantic] No Age: Snares Like a Haircut [Drag City] John Prine: The Tree of Forgiveness [Oh Boy] Amy Rigby: The Old Guys [Southern Domestic] Riton & Kah-Lo: Foreign Ororo [Last Gang] Saba: Care for Me [Saba Pivot] Amanda Shires: To the Sunset [Silver Knife] Shopping: The Official Body [Fat Cat] Paul Simon: In the Blue Light [Legacy] Elza Soares: Deus É Mulher [Deck] Soccer Mommy: Clean [Fat Possum] Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is a Reptile [Impulse] Sophie: Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides [Transgressive/Future Classic] Speedy Ortiz: Twerp Verse [Carpark] Superorganism: Superorganism [Domino] Tal National: Tantabara [Fat Cat] Tracey Thorn: Record [Merge] Tropical Fuck Storm: A Laughing Death in Meatspace [Tropical Fuck Storm/Mistletone] tUnE-yArDs: I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life [4AD] Becky Warren: Undesirable [self-released] Kanye West and Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghosts [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Wreckless Eric: Construction Time & Demolition [Southern Domestic] Wussy: Getting Better [Shake It EP] Wussy: What Heaven Is Like [Shake It] Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On [Matador] I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits [Piranha]
B+	American Aquarium: Things Change [New West] Neko Case: Hell-On [Anti-] Eminem: Kamikaze [Aftermath/Shady/Interscope/Goliath] Clay Harper: Bleak Beauty [self-released] Jeffrey Lewis and the Deposit Returners: Works by Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) [Don Giovanni] Mad Crush: Mad Crush [Upon This Rock] Ashley McBryde: Girl Going Nowhere [Atlantic] Lori McKenna: The Tree [CN/Thirty Tigers] Meek Mill: Championships [Maybach Music Group] Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour [MCA Nashville] Princess Nokia: A Girl Cried Red [self-released EP] Rolling Blackouts C.F.: Hope Downs [Sub Pop] Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s [Legacy]
***	Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall [Nonesuch] The Beths: Future Me Hates Me [Carpark] Blood Orange: Negro Swan [Domino] Ceramic Dog: YRU Still Here? [Northern Spy] Cupcakke: Eden [Cupcakke] Czarface: Czarface Meets Metal Face [Silver Age] Marianne Faithfull: Negative Capability [Panta Rei/BMG] Flasher: Constant Image [Domino] Robbie Fulks/Linda Gail Lewis: Wild! Wild! Wild! [Bloodshot] Gift of Gab: Rejoice! Rappers Are Rapping Again! [Giftstribution EP] Jean Grae & Quelle Chris: Everything's Fine [Mello Music] Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog [Saddle Creek] George Jones & the Jones Boys: Live in Texas 1965 [Ace] Lil Wayne: Tha Carter V [Young Money] Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Sparkle Hard [Matador] Roc Marciano: RR2: The Bitter Dose [Marci Enterprises] Molly Tigre: Molly Tigre [Very Special] Mudhoney: Digital Garbage [Sub Pop] Grand Peeples and the Peeples Republik: Settling Scores Vol. II [Gatorbone] Sidi Touré: Toubalero [Thrill Jockey] Kali Uchis: Isolation [Superbillion]
**	Atmosphere: Mi Vida Local [Rhymesayers] Chris Butler & Ralph Carney: Songs for Unsung Holidays [Smog Veil] Brandi Carlile: By the Way, I Forgive You [ATO] The Coathangers: Live [Suicide Squeeze] DJ Koze: Knock Knock [Pampa] E-40: The Gift of Gab [Heavy on the Grind] Will Hoge: My American Dream [Thirty Tigers/EDLO] Jon Hopkins: Singularity [Domino] Low Cut Connie: Dirty Pictures (Part 2) [Contender] Ike Reilly: Crooked Love [Rock Ridge Music] Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Years [Bloodshot] Weakened Friends: Common Blah [Don Giovanni] Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar [Ninja Tune]
*	Lily Allen: No Shame [Warner Bros.] Born Ruffians: Uncle, Duke and the Chief [Yep Roc] The Breeders: All Nerve [4AD] Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman [Ninja Tune] Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: Black Times [Strut] Lala Lala: The Lamb [Hardly Art] Adrianne Lenker: Abysskiss [Saddle Creek] Walter Martin: Reminisce Bar & Grill [Ile Flottante] Medhane: Ba Suba, Ak Jamm [Grand Closing] Migos: Culture II [QC/Motown/Capitol] Ashley Monroe: Sparrow [Warner Bros.] Nas: Nasir [G.O.O.D. Music EP] Willie Nelson: My Way [Legacy] Okkervil River: In the Rainbow Rain [ATO] Primo!: Amici [Polyester] Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley [PIAS America] Rae Sremmurd: SR3MM [Eardrum/Interscope] Allen Ravenstine: Waiting for the Bomb [Morphius/MVD] Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 [Anti-] Derek Smalls: Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing) [Twanky/BMG] Vince Staples: FM! [Def Jam] The Chandler Travis Three-O: Backward Crooked From the Sunset [Iddy Biddy] U.S. Girls: In a Poem Unlimited [4AD] Kanye West: Ye [G.O.O.D. Music EP] 1800 Seconds: Curated by Pusha T [Mass Appeal]

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